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Power from Sunlight – Powering space exploration with solar energy

Brief description: In this set of activities, students will learn about two concepts that influence solar panel design for space...

ArtsPhysicsScienceTechnology

Moon Rover – Building a solar powered rover

Brief description: In this activity, students will compare the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy sources and non-renewable energy sources...

Powering the Moon

Brief description: A lunar day lasts for 14 Earth days, but night can be just as long. Is solar energy...

BiologyScience

Space Bears – Lab-experience with Tardigrades

Brief description: In this set of experimental activities, students will investigate the survival abilities of tardigrades, also known as water...

ChemistryPhysicsScience

Extracting Water from Lunar Soil – Learning about filtration and distillation

Brief description: In this resource, students will learn about changes of state of matter using water on the Moon as...

Launching Into Space. Bye Earth, Hello Moon!

Brief description: How exactly does a rocket engine work? Learn about different factors that affect your space launch and how...

What materials to build your home on the Moon?

Brief description: When you think of building, you probably think of bricks – but Moon rock is an entirely different...

Food on the Moon

Brief description: There are only so many groceries you can bring to the Moon, so how do you produce food...

ArtsComputingMathematics

Mission on the Moon – Program a classmate to complete a mission on the Moon

Brief description: This activity will introduce students to logical thinking by planning, testing and executing a simple mission on the...

Building your own Moon home

Brief description: The first Moon structure has a lot of roles to fill: a home base not only for sleeping...

PhysicsScienceTechnology

Spacecraft Materials Kit

Brief description: Pupils can use the ESA Spacecraft Materials Kit to experimentally investigate a variety of different materials. A set of five...

Science

AstroFood – Learning about edible plants in Space

Brief description: In this set of activities, students will learn about the different components of plants. They will learn which...

MathematicsScience

Water on the Moon – Filtering lunar ice cores to extract water

Brief description: In this resource, pupils will spend a day recording approximately how much water they use for different activities....

Paxi And Our Moon Phases And Eclipses

Brief description Join Paxi as he explores the Moon. In this video, targeted at children aged between 6 and 12,...

Radiation on the Moon. How much sunscreen do you need on the Moon?

Brief description: Just one year on the moon maxes out the amount of solar radiation we can handle over a...

Paxi Explores The Moon

Brief description: Join Paxi as he explores the Moon. In this video, targeted at children aged between 6 and 12,...

Robots on the Moon

Brief description: Getting stuff done on the Moon requires more effort than what the first settlers can manage by themselves....

Water on the Moon

Brief description: Since the Moon is as dry as Earth’s driest desert, we’ll have to bring water with us. The...

BiologyScience

Could life survive in alien environments? – Defining environments suitable for life

Brief description: In this activity, students will consider whether life found in extreme environments on Earth could survive elsewhere in...

Landing on the Moon

Brief description: A manned spacecraft needs a soft landing, but it’s all in the timing. Fire up your thrusters and...

How to communicate on the Moon?

Brief description: Even daily communication changes when living on the Moon. Without air to carry our voices, we might rely...

ArtsScience

Bionic Hand – Building a bionic hand

Brief description: In this activity, pupils will build a bionic hand made out of cardboard, strings, straws and rubber bands....

Traveling on the Moon

Brief description: How best to travel on the moon with rocks, boulders and craters in our way? And when settlements...

Waste management on the Moon

Brief description: One Earthling’s trash is another astronaut’s treasure. We can turn waste products into valuable sources of heat and...

ArtsPhysicsScienceTechnology

Up up up! Build and launch your own rocket

Brief description: In this set of four group activities pupils build three different rockets. The first is a simple paper...

How To Fly In Space? Slingshot To The Moon!

Brief description: Flying to the moon is tricky business, especially since you can’t just head in a direct line. How...

ScienceSocial studies

Astronaut Logbook: A week in the life of an astronaut with Samantha Cristoforetti

Astronaut Logbook: A week in the life of an astronaut with Samantha Cristoforetti Your Mission: Follow Samantha’s routine at...

ArtsScience

Moon Shelter – Investigating different shelters on Earth and in space

Brief description: In this set of activities, pupils will analyse the importance of having shelter for protection on Earth and...

Air on the Moon

Brief description: Holding our breath isn’t an option on the Moon, we need sources of oxygen to sustain life. Let’s...

EconomicsMathematicsPhysicsScience

Landing on the moon – Planning and designing a lunar lander

Brief description: In this set of activities, students will plan, design and build a landing module to secure the survival...

What experiments can you do on the Moon?

Brief description: The aim of the Moon mission is to research how to live on other planets. That means not...

Meteors on the Moon. Sunny with a chance of meteor shower

Brief description: About 180 craters appear on the Moon every year, not to mention being hit by golf ball-sized meteors...

What is the best place to live on the Moon?

Brief description: An entirely new landscape awaits when you land on the Moon. Will you choose one of the poles...

ChemistryPhysicsScience

Power from Water – How to produce oxygen and hydrogen on the Moon

Brief description: In this set of three activities, students will learn about electrochemistry. In the first activity, they will build...

BiologyScience

AstroCrops – Growing plants for future space missions

Brief description: In this set of activities, students will build an understanding of germination and plant growth by following the...

Local lunar sights

Brief description: Learn more about the local lunar sights! Top tips for an unforgettable Moon adventure include impact craters housing...

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